http://www.akiba-station.com/blog/?p=2080
That links to a toy edamame bean! According to wikipedia, "In Japan, some animals bred for miniature size are referred to as Mame-Shiba. The prefix "mame," meaning "bean" in Japanese, is similar to "toy" prefix used to refer to other miniature breeds."

The beans look strangely guinea pig like - at least on that link that goes to the stickers. There's someone at work who is half Japanese, so I'm going to have to do some investigation tomorrow. The talking bean intrigues me...

I think this is also a play on the Japanese use of the word mame to sometimes describe anything trivial (think bean = small size, hence a trivial tidbit of info or matter...). So the tiny mame-shiba puppy, is also throwing out random factoids, much to the chagrin of his audience. The Japanese do love their puns.

@Asumi - It's still there above my first post. I think the shiba is referring to the shiba-ken, since it's a doggy face on the mame. And as someone's noted, they do breed a miniature version of the shiba referred to as mame-shiba as well.

It seems like these might be chopped up by some weird people. The Ronald McDonald is a giveaway there - it was recently quite popular to splice him into strange videos. I'm not quite sure about the source material.

This is an altered version made to have weirder dialog than the original by splicing words from different parts together. The original eps can be fount on youtube, but if you can't understand Japanese anyway, you can't tell the difference!

Like people have said, "Mame shiba" can be a mini dog. "Mame" also means pea, and "mame chishiki" (豆知識) means "trivia" or "bits of knowledge".

SO, this is a combination of a pea and a dog that comes out and tells you a random piece of pointless trivia, like "The inside of a kangaroo's pouch really stinks."

Therpharm: I think you are on to something. The weird words (kangaroo, bed-wetting, etc.) are poorly spliced into the text at the end of each segment. Someone living in Japan would be able to confirm the splicing for us if they went to the mame-shiba.jp website (the video on that site is restricted to Japanese IPs only, so I can't see it)

@good, I was going to write the same thing, but he beat me too it. It also sounds like mame-chishiki which means random trivia (mostly useless). Japanese word play is much more common then in English and often you need to understand something on a few different levels for it to make sense. The straight translation often has only part of the meaning.

Oh, I see! The reason this seems really weird is because someone edited the dialogue!

Let me get this straight. In the edited version, a chibi dog/soybean pops out and says, "They say France's dandelions are really stinky", whereas in the original, non-weird version, a chibi dog/soybean pops out and says "They say the inside of a kangaroo's pouch is really stinky". Is that it?

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